The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-06-15
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
(By Our Regular Correspondents

hoiD u lViit 1901
For the last two weeks, this beau
tiful city has had t%he"unusual visi-
tatiOn of II heavy rain, almost3daily
an experience that is becoming ex-
tremcly monotonous, not to say an
noying.
In political circles, especially
am6ng Democrats, the questions
most discussed arc the tariff, the
surplus in the National Treasury,
and the probaBl extra session of
Congress in October next, to con-
slider these momentus issues of
such grave import both to the well
fare Of the country and the success
OF the Democracy. Mr. Randall
and the protection Democrats gene
rally, oppose an extra session, and
it is thought the President rather
inclines to the same opinion, while
Mr. Carlisle and his adhcrcnts are
understood to favor an extra session.
Bur, while there Is great diversity
of sentiment upon these subjects
all agree upon one proposition-that
something must be done by Con-
grcss to relieve the people of tho
United States from evils resulting
from u present system Of inter-
nal taxation and n faulty ifs al pol
icy inherited from the Republicans,
both of which appear to combine to
produce industrial depression and
increase of the surplus.
Public Printer Benedict is still
wedding out a large number of his
employees, and it would seem dis
missal from the public service is
the order of the day, as ten clerks
in the Office of the second Control
Ter of the Treasury have been noti-
fed that their official services will
not be required after July lst and
dropped off the Patent Office rolls
about that time; there are no char
ges against these unfortunates-
they will be simply lcgislatcd out
of office. And so between the fear
of dismissal and the new nightmare
of civil service reform for the ms,
as we'll az tho outs, many of the
poor clerks Aro broken of their rcst
and have pale, haggard, hunted
look.
So successful wasthe late Nation
al Drill from n military standpoint
wholly tho result Of individual ef-
fOrt-that General Sheridan, as
commander oftho United States
Army, will, in his annual report to
the Secretary of war, recommend
that Congress made provision
for an annual drill and cncamp-
ment. to be held under the
auspices Of the Army in Washing
ton, in order that the ir%rcrressiblc
American military spirit may be
gratified and disciplined.
The flags on all the public bull
dings in the National Capital were
placed at halfmast, by order Of the
President, on the day of the funeral
Of VIM. a. Wheeler, tho man who,
by the favor CT fraud, filed the first
term of Nicc-President Thomas A.
Hendrick :. Mr. Wheeler, after retir-
ing from Office, lapsed into such ut
ter obscurlty, becoming, too, both
q mental and q physical wreck in
recent years.-that he had been al
most forgotten by the public. Twill
do the dead man the poor justice
to say that he was far better than
his accomplish, II. Is. Hays who, rs
d common chicken farmer, survives
to bear the shame Of the great out
rage on liberty oftho century.
1t is whispered from the White
House THAI an event Of q most in
tcresting nature,-One that will be
memorable in history and in the
home-life Of the President and his
youthful wife, is likely to occur In
that grand mansion In the melnnch-
oily days of November.
John Sherman has formed n COM
blration with Levi p. Morton, the
milliona re Htatesman(O of New
York, by which it is proposed to
wrest the Empire State from
Blaine's support and make the Re-
publican ticket Sherman and Nor
on. Tho lattcr's chief motive in
in the deal Is to revenge himself up
on tho Blaineacs for defeating him
for United State Senator last winter.
The strife in York between the
Blaine and Sherman forces in wax
ing so warm that it may ultimate
~ revive all the latent bitterness
of the quarrel ofthe Stalwart and
Half Breed factions, which led to
resignation Of Conkling and MeToo
Patt, the disruptj.n Of the Repub-
lican party ofthat state, and the as
s~assinatiOn Of Garfield.
One morning Mr. Oliver, Justice Of
the Peace for the District Of Column
bia, somewhat like Lord Byron,
woke to find himself famous. This
doughty esquire had been notified
of his removal from the office he
holds, by the Presidents" but Squire
Oliver denies tho Executives right
to remove him, holding that such
power is vested only in the Court
in General TOm,-and refusing to
bulge an inch, he appeals to that
tribunal for protection.